Greece

The Greek National School in Vienna, the oldest still-functioning Greek school in the world, has celebrated 220 years since its opening. The school - founded in 1804 - was awarded the 'Simonos Sina' award by the Academy of Athens in...

After a meeting with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo late on Friday, Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias stated to the press that he hoped that all the nations involved in the current tense situation in the eastern Mediterranean...

Talks between Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) ended at the United Nations in Vienna without statements on Tuesday. Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias and his counterpart Nikola Dimitrov met with UN special representative Matthew Nimetz for...

The Mantzaros Philharmonic Society of Corfu was awarded the gold prize at the World Orchestra Festival 2016, held in Vienna, while the orchestra’s renowned conductor and trumpeter, Socratis Anthis was awarded the prize of “excellent conductor.” The Corfiot orchestra...

The Austrian government plans to invite Greece to the second conference on the Western Balkans and the refugee crisis at the level of Foreign and Interior Ministers, which will take place in Vienna, according to the Independent Balkans News...

The Greek ambassador returned to Austria on Wednesday, putting an official end to an acrimonious argument that began after the shut-down of the Balkan route to central Europe for migrants. Austria was the country that organized the closing of the...

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras met with Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann earlier today in Vienna, where he was jubilantly accepted. A large number of Greeks residing in Vienna, as well as Austrians, had gathered in front of the Chancellery shouting...

With his fragile coalition on the verge of breaking up over his decree to shut down the national broadcaster ERT without consulting his partners or the Parliament, Greek Prime Minister told European Union leaders during a lightning visit to...

Rigas Feraios was a Greek revolutionary who fought in the mountains and worked as a writer, merchant, and revolutionary agitator in the wide Balkan Diaspora forming in the states neighboring the Ottoman Empire. He had done it all. Like so...

The formation of the United States of the Ionian Islands under British rule in Greece is a little known period of the country's history.

When Vassilis Tsitsanis passed away on January 18, 1984, on his 69th birthday, music historians and experts knew that there will never be another Tsitsanis and all popular Greek music from then on would derive from his legacy alone. Tsitsanis'...

When Giacomo Casanova fell in love with Corfu he was only 16 years old, but his first visit was enough to make him go back and leave his mark on the Greek island

The ancient Greek and German languages may seem worlds apart, but it was a Greek bishop and Christian missionary named Ulfilas, who played a surprisingly important role in the codification of the early German language into a written system. Ulfilas...

German architect Ernst Ziller left his own eternal, and magnificent, imprint on Athens by designing some of the city's most iconic buildings.

Greek surrealist painter and poet Nikos Engonopoulos is one of the most well-known modern Greek painters internationally. He was an important figure in the Generation of the '30s, a prominent group of artists and thinkers in Greece. This group was fascinated...